All is well during the day for Limestone College students, but it is believed by some that ghosts rule the night, with several phantoms residing in the school's buildings. Classes go on without a hitch at Limestone College, with students roaming through the building’s halls all hours of the day.

But the night belongs to the silent occupants of the college’s buildings, sometimes revealing themselves when provoked or encroached upon by us mere mortals.

There are phantoms believed to be roaming Limestone College. Several reports of paranormal activities have been written about the school, none more popular than that of the Dixie Lodge rocking chair that rocks by itself.

According to legend, a young girl died in a room on the third floor of the Dixie Lodge during the 1850s. Now the centerpiece of the Limestone campus, it is used as a student center and administration building for the college.

Prior to becoming a vital component of the college’s daily operations, the Dixie Lodge had become rundown and was off-limits to all due to the structure being deemed unsafe. However, the building seems to suit the spirit of this young girl well, as does a certain rocking chair found in the room she died in many years before.

On occasion, the chair will rock without the assistance of humans, unexplainable to John Boyanoski, ghost expert and author of a series of books titled “Ghosts of Upstate South Carolina.”

“When you go into researching stories about ghosts, much of the stuff you’re told cannot be substantiated or proven,” Boyanoski said. “But the proof was there for this one, with the chair rocking by itself ... truly, a haunted tale because it cannot be explained by anyone.”

The room is currently blocked off by Limestone officials, no longer open to the public.

A campus structure still used on a regular basis, however, is the Swofford Chapel.

According to the book “Ghosts of the South Carolina Upcountry” by Talmadge & Tally Johnson, two young girls were playing on the stairs leading up to the place of worship’s balcony one afternoon many years ago. At some point, the friends began to argue, prompting one of the girls to push her acquaintance down the stairs, causing the child to break her neck and die.

Late afternoons in the chapel have not been the same since, according to the book’s authors, with custodians and others who have been to the place of worship reporting being the presence of a young child inside the building.

“Since then, in the late afternoon, custodians and others who have been in the chapel have claimed to have seen a blue shape quickly appear and disappear on the balcony stairs, sometimes accompanied by a child’s laughter,” the authors wrote in the book. “The girl who died was wearing a blue dress.”